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Photo Oops: History's Worst Political Photo Ops

As author Josh King recounts in “Dukakis and the Tank,” the first rule of political photo ops is: Never put anything on your head. Many date this hard and fast tenet of the campaign trail to this 1927 encounter between President Calvin Coolidge and some feathers. Advisers warned Coolidge, who wore the headdress while being named an honorary chief in Deadwood, South Dakota, that he would look funny. “Well it’s good for people to laugh, isn’t it?” Coolidge replied.